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We. Computer. People.Thu, 12 Mar 2015 04:23:27 +0000en-UShourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1Why @Facebook Email Address is a Threat To Web and Invasion of Privacyhttp://www.blogsolute.com/hide-facebook-email-address-threat-privacy/22648/
http://www.blogsolute.com/hide-facebook-email-address-threat-privacy/22648/#commentsTue, 10 Jul 2012 13:01:07 +0000http://www.blogsolute.com/?p=22648Back in 2010, Facebook launched their own Facebook email service and asked users to claim their @facebook accounts. This email feature didn’t get popular like timeline as who wants their email to be like yourname@facebook.com (at least not me). Facebook announced this feature as an opt-in feature, but recently it has imposed this feature for [...]

]]>Back in 2010, Facebook launched their own Facebook email service and asked users to claim their @facebook accounts. This email feature didn’t get popular like timeline as who wants their email to be like yourname@facebook.com (at least not me).

Facebook announced this feature as an opt-in feature, but recently it has imposed this feature for everyone, whether you like it or not. I know that many of you will like this email service, but you really haven’t thought about it.

Why yourname@facebook.com is Not Good For You And Your Privacy?

Consider that your email address is like above mentioned address.

Now this one goes for Girls- If you have a stalker or ex-boyfriend (not me of course). He does know your name, it means he knows your email address: yourname@facebook.com. Now, you can either workaround finding who the hell is sending you weird messages from unknown email id or you can hide your facebook email id from your so called facebook timeline.

This one goes for everyone, as many of us thinks that it’s just an email what the hell can be done with it. Since the email id for Facebook is so easy that a 3 year old child can guess it, so it’s easier to contact anyone (Say a movie star).

Now if anyone wanted to play some kind of prank which can be funny (if he’s your friend) or frustrating for you and your family. He can do so by sending you message like “what was I doing in your bed last night?” and you can think many other situations similar to this.

It simply becomes a data mine for email harvesters to spam your inbox.

Why I haven’t Switched to @Facebook Email ID

Facebook is well branded for what it is and that’s not an email service.

As said by Lifehacker, you should not put all eggs in one basket and must keep things on Internet separately.

Facebook believes that most conversations with friends are on-the-fly, short, real-time conversations, which is why they’re not terribly concerned with making Facebook Messages work like email. All they’re doing is making sure it works with email.

Still, if you do, you won’t be allowed to access your mails on Work and the reason is simple- Network firewall where facebook.com is blocked.

How To Remove/Hide Your Facebook Email Address From Your Timeline

• Sign in to your Facebook account.
• Now visit your profile page by clicking on your profile pic at the top right corner.
• Open the About section and scroll down to see Contact Info.

• Click on Edit to edit your contact information.

• Now on the right of the Email tab, next to the Facebook email account id, click on the drop down menu to choose disable on timeline.
• To check whether the email id appears on your timeline or not, kindly go to your timeline.

]]>http://www.blogsolute.com/hide-facebook-email-address-threat-privacy/22648/feed/4Take Complete Care of Firefox Privacy and Security With These Addonshttp://www.blogsolute.com/firefox-privacy-security-addons/21098/
http://www.blogsolute.com/firefox-privacy-security-addons/21098/#commentsMon, 30 Apr 2012 04:31:34 +0000http://www.blogsolute.com/?p=21098Web Browser is a gateway to Internet / World Wide Web from your Computer. Data Transaction done through Web browsers hence should be safe and secure. This article is for the one, worried about Privacy of Personal Information given from browser. (Image Source – Hulk 4598) Often, People are scared to view unknown websites as [...]

]]>Web Browser is a gateway to Internet / World Wide Web from your Computer. Data Transaction done through Web browsers hence should be safe and secure. This article is for the one, worried about Privacy of Personal Information given from browser.

Often, People are scared to view unknown websites as they are scared to get infected or get caught up in a scam and lose their personal information.When you get caught up in a scam and do lose your information the only simple thing you can do is change your username and password through email verification, but you can always find some ways to protect your privacy.

There are a lot of add-ons which helps in make surfing the internet a safer place (Google Chrome does also provide extensions for secure browsing but these are for Firefox).

You can give a try to some of these Firefox plugins/add-ons for securing your personal information over internet.

Better Privacy

Better Privacy isn’t just a simple Firefox add-on. It deletes a special kind of cookies known as LSO (Local Shared Objects) also known as flash cookies which stays on your computer for an unlimited time. They are larger in size compared to normal cookies (100 KB to 40KB). They are harmful for another reason as they are not fully managed by your browser and all browsers uses the same LSO and can send information to LSO tracking site without user information. LSO can also re-cerate and delete traditional cookies (Not the Coconut One).

HTTPS Everywhere

HTTPS (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure) Everywhere is another good add-on for regular Firefox internet user as it automatically opens up the website being opened in secure mode, thus preventing your personal information from being viewed by others. Though there are some good websites which doesn’t provide secure browsing.

MD5 Hasher Reborned

When you download a file from the internet there are always a chance of getting a corrupted file. You cannot check it by yourself without actually opening it, but you can always compare the checksum of the original file with the downloaded one. MD5 Hasher Reborned gives you the ability to calculate checksum of the downloaded file and compare it with the original one.

KeyScrambler

KeyScrambler basically encrypt every keystroke made by you through your keyboard, thus providing a totally secure environment for chatting, messages, password and username input, and any thing you search or write in your browser. When you install keyscrambler, it install a plugin for firefox and Internet explorer users. So if you,re really worried about securing your password and other inputted text then you should definitely try keyscrambler.

]]>http://www.blogsolute.com/firefox-privacy-security-addons/21098/feed/1Download Hundreds of Free Games of Any Genre with These Downloadershttp://www.blogsolute.com/download-hundred-games-downloader-windows-software/21169/
http://www.blogsolute.com/download-hundred-games-downloader-windows-software/21169/#commentsFri, 27 Apr 2012 05:26:11 +0000http://www.blogsolute.com/?p=21169With the popularity of internet usage day-by-day, people are moving on from buying games from game store to online licenses. Now the task of finding and downloading games whether they may be flash games, 8-bit games, or the present generation games is quite difficult. So I am going to state the names of some of [...]

]]>With the popularity of internet usage day-by-day, people are moving on from buying games from game store to online licenses. Now the task of finding and downloading games whether they may be flash games, 8-bit games, or the present generation games is quite difficult. So I am going to state the names of some of the game downloaders that are available in the market, some of them are quite famous and provide newer games to download along with their license and other just lets you to download old games which are totally free.

Game Downloader

Game Downloader is one of the most famous game downloader for downloading free games which everyone loved to play in their childhood. It includes games like Mario, Dead Wake, Sonic, etc. You can easily browse through the categories to find games which you want to download, or you can search for it in its search box.

Online Games Downloader

Online Games Downloader is a dedicated game downloader for downloading flash games. You can browse the Games tab to find games for downloading. The games are opened in your browser specially Internet Explorer and Firefox. Within the flash Window of your browser, you’ll see a download option, click on it to download the flash game.

Origin

Origin is EA (Electronic Arts) games based downloader. If you’re looking for newer games from EA to download/buy then this is the best game downloader which you can get for EA games. You can even go through the upcoming game demos and their release dates. The best part of Origin is that it let you buy the game with the download link.

The only thing which may be not loved by many Origin users is that the game downloaded through Origin can only be played through Origin.

Steam

There is nothing much to be said about Steam, as Steam has been there since Counter Strike hit the gaming world, and has been dominating since then. You can purchase licenses for games along with the download link from Steam. Sometimes Steam offer free download of popular games.

Which is the best online Game Downloader?

Are you confused in selecting the best game downloader? Here is a quick note on the usage scenario of each of them.

If you’re looking for older games Game Downloader is the one you should look into. For flash games Online Games Downloader is pretty good. Origin is the game downloader for all the famous EA games and Steam is just Steam.

]]>http://www.blogsolute.com/download-hundred-games-downloader-windows-software/21169/feed/2Finding Best Bootable Antivirus Rescue CD To Clean Infected Computerhttp://www.blogsolute.com/finding-best-antivirus-rescue-disks/20776/
http://www.blogsolute.com/finding-best-antivirus-rescue-disks/20776/#commentsTue, 10 Apr 2012 04:46:53 +0000http://www.blogsolute.com/?p=20776If you cannot boot into your Operating System or you think your system is totally infected with some sort of malware and your antivirus isn’t able to wipe these intruders, then before trying to reinstall the Operating System and losing most of your precious data (in case of unbootable system), you should give any one [...]

]]>If you cannot boot into your Operating System or you think your system is totally infected with some sort of malware and your antivirus isn’t able to wipe these intruders, then before trying to reinstall the Operating System and losing most of your precious data (in case of unbootable system), you should give any one of the below mentioned antivirus software that let you scan at the boot time.

BitDefender Rescue CD

BitDefender is capable of scanning and disinfecting your system at boot time. This is another one of those who states to used only when your system in not booting or is almost inoperable.

Tools included inside are a rootkit scanner, network-vulnerability scanner, partition manager, file recovery tools, wireless network monitor, network diagnostics, and Mozilla’s Firefox browser. When you boot the CD, the software tries to download anti-malware definition updates if the system has an active Internet connection.

Virus Detection is Good and gives you option to choose what to do after threats have been detected.

You can download the ISO from here and if you’re looking for a guide to create bootable rescue cd or usb check out this link.

Kaspersky Rescue Disk

Kaspersky Rescue disk is specially made to scan, disinfect, and restore infected operating system. The official website of Kaspersky states that this software should only be used when the operating system becomes unbootable. Kaspersky doesn’t need much introduction when it comes to defending systems against intrusions. The rescue disk is capable of removing any kind of intrusions and makes your system bootable again.

Graphical User Interface is quite user friendly but sometimes, cleaning enters infinite loop mode and then only option is to unplug power.

You can download the ISO from here and if you’re thinking on how to create a bootable USB drive then you can check out this link.

This is the only antivirus which comes with an inbuilt boot scanning option. Actually this is one of the things every antivirus should come with. To perform a boot time scan through Quick Heal, you have to follow these steps:

Update Quick Heal to the latest virus definitions

Disconnect your computer from all the networks

Open Quick Heal – Click on Scan – Click on Boot time Scan – Click on Yes to set the Boot Time Scanner – Click on Yes to restart your computer

Quick Heal is faster in scanning compared to above solutions while I doubt about offering complete threat deletion.

If you don’t want to believe in ratings and comparisons provided in this article or by anyone, you should create a combination of all these top Antivirus Rescue disks. Shardana Antivirus Rescue Disk Utility can help you in creating a multiboot disk.

Shardana Antivirus Rescue Disk Utility [ SARDU ]

This is one of those applications that everyone should give a try. This is just a utility that lets you create bootable disk/usb from the available antivirus rescue disks and system tools. The application does not come up with any of the rescue disk or system tools.

]]>http://www.blogsolute.com/finding-best-antivirus-rescue-disks/20776/feed/87 Software I Recommend For Increasing Work Productivity on Windowshttp://www.blogsolute.com/recommend-software-windows-productivity/20297/
http://www.blogsolute.com/recommend-software-windows-productivity/20297/#commentsWed, 04 Apr 2012 06:19:13 +0000http://www.blogsolute.com/?p=20297I love to keep my Windows Desktop Organized and at the same time Productive for day to day computing. And this urges me to find useful productivity windows software to improve my work style and deliver more efficiently. So, here is a list of these software I personally recommend. Fences Fences is a desktop organizing [...]

]]>I love to keep my Windows Desktop Organized and at the same time Productive for day to day computing. And this urges me to find useful productivity windows software to improve my work style and deliver more efficiently. So, here is a list of these software I personally recommend.

Fences is a desktop organizing application that lets you create a fence or a specific area on your desktop for arranging icons in a group. For example, you can keep all your browser applications in one fence, all your day-to-day use application in the second one, and all your games in the third fence.

When you run Fences, the main window of this application will prompt you to choose from Recommended settings where Fences decides itself where to arrange the desktop applications or the custom one where you create fences filled with your own preferred desktop applications.

I personally chose to use the Recommended one as I don’t have much applications on my desktop and it did re-arranged my desktop applications in a different manner, but this application is better for all those people who love to fill there desktop.

You can even configure where the fences should be placed from the fences settings window. If you’re looking for more desktop organizing applications you can visit list of software to Beautify Windows Desktop.

Total Commander as the name suggests lets you get command of your Windows Operating System. It lets you copy, move, and delete files and folder. From this description it may look like just an ordinary file explorer, but it supports zipping and unzipping of files and folder, and zip archives of course. Another good thing about total commander is the support it gives for controlling your network shared files and folder. You can easily share files and folder on your network with just a click. It even has added support for FTP client and lots of other things which you can check out yourself.

When I first used this application the interface resembles to X-Plore (A symbian application). The only thing that I dislike about this application is that it’s a shareware application.

There is nothing much that I can add to this application as every user who has ever used it know its worth. Other than being the most awesome file relocation application, Tera Copy has support for pausing the copying or moving (Which btw is now added in Windows 8). Another good thing about TeraCopy is that during a copy error, Unlike Windows it just skips the file itself thus resuming the copying. The interface for TeraCopy is simple, just choose your file or folder to copy or move and choose its destination, and let TeraCopy do its work.

Click.toworks the same way as a desktop launcher,it does not only create single-click shortcuts of regular PC applications but it creates shortcuts for online services like Google, Gmail, Facebook, Blogger, Youtube, Box, Wikipedia, GoogleMaps, and many others. When you run click.to for the first time you’re asked to choose from different services that you want to be kept in the launcher, and you are even prompted to choose the desired location of the launcher on the desktop.

If for some reason you want to add or configure the settings or even change the launcher location you can do so by right-clicking on the click.to icon in the system tray and then choosing the Options.

Its a very good application for regular internet and applications user like us.

Ever encountered errors like file is in use by any other program or user or disk is not full or write protected while deleting, moving or renaming a file even if the file is currently not in use. This happens a lot of times for many Windows users (I personally had this problem when I used to use Windows XP). Now if you’re encountering problems like this and can’t find a way to complete the task you were going to perform, then Unlocker is the right application for you.

After installing unlocker all you have to do is right click on the application and choose unlocker. Now choose from any of the three options move, delete, and rename.

Unlocker even works when the application is really in use by some program.

Even though the name is so obvious, Ultimate Windows Context Menu Customizer is the best application that you can find for customizing you context-menu not only for desktop but for all other windows.

To add an application in your context menu just choose the Context Menu Location on the left hand side of the application window, and then choose the application that you want to add from the right hand side of the application window. Now you’ll see the Add Item becoming live just below the Context Menu Location, click on it to add the application to your context menu for your desired location.

This application is extremely good in Windows 8 because the Metro interface sucks at times of looking commonly used applications.

System Explorer is more or less like in-built Windows Task manager, but it is more efficient than it. You can even run a security check which is checked through Virus Total. Other than end a process or setting the priority you can even check the directory of the running process.

Windows 8 beta task manger doesn’t works like it used to work in Windows 7, so I’ll prefer users to use System Explorer instead of it.

]]>http://www.blogsolute.com/recommend-software-windows-productivity/20297/feed/12How To Disable Facebook Timeline and Get Back Old Profilehttp://www.blogsolute.com/disable-facebook-timeline-deactivate/20094/
http://www.blogsolute.com/disable-facebook-timeline-deactivate/20094/#commentsTue, 27 Mar 2012 04:56:25 +0000http://www.blogsolute.com/?p=20094Facebook Timeline was new profile page approach that Facebook launched some months ago approximately around September last year. At first it was just for the people who wanted to check and configure their timeline before becoming permanent. There are many Facebook users who really love the idea of timeline and are sticking by it. There are [...]

]]>Facebook Timeline was new profile page approach that Facebook launched some months ago approximately around September last year. At first it was just for the people who wanted to check and configure their timeline before becoming permanent. There are many Facebook users who really love the idea of timeline and are sticking by it. There are also a lot of people who want their old Facebook profile page.

Officially there are no means to remove timeline from your Facebook profile page, but that wouldn’t stop people from finding a way out.

Such a task can be easily done with a tiny browser extension called as TimeLineRemove. Normally the official website of TimeLineRemove offers extension/add-on for almost all popular browsers, but sadly there is no such thing for Safari. The official webpage states that the extension for Safari browser is under development.

Before Using TimeLineRemove

Installing TimeLineRemove

Go to TimeLineRemove. Depending on your browser you’ll see the icon of your respective browser flashing.

If you want to get back the Facebook timeline, just simply uninstall or disable the TimeLineRemove from the add-on/extension tab in options of your respective browser.

Just to let you all know, that if you’re a casual Facebook user, I personally recommend you use timeline otherwise to tell you the truth the Old Facebook Wall without timeline was better in its way as it gave more information to the user than the new timeline.

]]>http://www.blogsolute.com/disable-facebook-timeline-deactivate/20094/feed/2Manage All Social Networks and Edit Settings From One Placehttp://www.blogsolute.com/manage-social-networks-edit-settings-one-place/20129/
http://www.blogsolute.com/manage-social-networks-edit-settings-one-place/20129/#commentsWed, 21 Mar 2012 16:55:05 +0000http://www.blogsolute.com/?p=20129Social networking has become a part of our daily life. People can’t imagine living a day without any one of these (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, StumbleUpon, Pinterest, Tumblr, Foursquare, LinkedIn, Google+, Meetup, Path, Instagram, and Flickr) famous social networks. The only thing about social networking is the hassle of changing different settings in each single social [...]

]]>Social networking has become a part of our daily life. People can’t imagine living a day without any one of these (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, StumbleUpon, Pinterest, Tumblr, Foursquare, LinkedIn, Google+, Meetup, Path, Instagram, and Flickr) famous social networks.

The only thing about social networking is the hassle of changing different settings in each single social network. Sometimes the task of say changing profile picture one by one, by logging in and going to the settings menu of each and every social network can be extremely tiring.

Therefore, the folks at Blisscontrol created a web-service that lets you change social network settingsall at once. They do not ask for any password or verification, but only thing you need is to be logged on to social network account.

Just to let you know that Blisscontrol does nothing more than sending you directly to the specific pages of your social networking account. It saves a lot of tasks of finding the correct page and settings tab to change your desired settings.

If you go to blisscontrol webpage, you see a very simple and easy interface where you will be asked to choose from many available settings on the left side and on the right side you can choose your social network. Now, click GO and that setting page will open.

The settings tab lets you choose from Change Bio, Change email settings, change profile picture, Change password, and many more things as shown in the image below.

I thought what’s use of Blisscontrol if only thing it does is pointing you to the right page, but the Truth is: It saves a lot of time. Facebook users must have felt that the settings keeps on changing and sometimes it gets very difficult to find the correct settings page.

]]>http://www.blogsolute.com/manage-social-networks-edit-settings-one-place/20129/feed/0How To Schedule Mails In Gmail: Send Email in Futurehttp://www.blogsolute.com/schedule-mails-in-gmail/20076/
http://www.blogsolute.com/schedule-mails-in-gmail/20076/#commentsWed, 14 Mar 2012 17:25:03 +0000http://www.blogsolute.com/?p=20076Even though social networking has taken over the use of E-mails, but there are a lot of tasks that can only be done with the use of e-mails like sending an application to your higher officials or simply remind someone or yourself by mailing and many other stuffs. Now, the most used e-mail service is [...]

]]>Even though social networking has taken over the use of E-mails, but there are a lot of tasks that can only be done with the use of e-mails like sending an application to your higher officials or simply remind someone or yourself by mailing and many other stuffs.

Now, the most used e-mail service is Gmail. But, What Gmail doesn’t support is Scheduling of Emails on a future date and time that you specify. Now, to get this support, you have to install a simple extension/add-on for your browser (Google Chrome or Mozilla firefox) called as Right Inbox.

Install and Setup Send Later on Gmail

All you have to do is, Go to their official site and install Right Inbox on your browser. After installation, restart is required in case of Firefox browser else just open your Gmail account in new tab. You will be greeted with the welcome message saying “Right Inbox for Gmail is ready!” and while composing message- You get a new button called “Send Later” in Gmail interface itself.

Not only that but also when you click on the Send Later option while sending email you’ll see that you even have some predefined timeline with ability to choose your own specific date or timeline. Yes, you can choose from 1-4 Hours or say tomorrow morning or noon or simply specify timings to send Mail.

I hope that its quite easy to setup and get it to working. As of now, service is offered for free but soon, they might start charging you for using Send Later Gmail Services.

]]>http://www.blogsolute.com/schedule-mails-in-gmail/20076/feed/6How To Browse Windows System Restore Points and Recover Selected Fileshttp://www.blogsolute.com/browse-windows-system-restore-points/19874/
http://www.blogsolute.com/browse-windows-system-restore-points/19874/#commentsThu, 08 Mar 2012 04:48:59 +0000http://www.blogsolute.com/?p=19874Microsoft Operating Systems are quite famous for hiding their system files from users whether it be the task of configuring host file or it be recovering files from the restore points. Today I’m going to explain how to recover some files from the restore points created by Windows System Restore instead of running the system [...]

]]>Microsoft Operating Systems are quite famous for hiding their system files from users whether it be the task of configuring host file or it be recovering files from the restore points. Today I’m going to explain how to recover some files from the restore points created by Windows System Restore instead of running the system restore and losing the settings for most of the updated software and drivers.

Basically this task can be done by using a simple utility called as System Restore Explorer and I really haven’t heard of any other way to do this. I used this application to restore some of the DLL files of one my drivers which was accidentally deleted by me.

System Restore Explorer basically based on .NET framework and lets you to access Shadow Copy Volume which is by default not accessible in Windows. All you have to do is download System Restore Explorer from the developer site at end of this post.

After downloading the application, install and run it. You’ll be presented with all the restore point that have been created overtime. Now you can either Mount or Delete the restore points giving you the ability to retrieve data and also freeing up the used space by unwanted restore points.

To access a specific restore point click on it and click Mount, a window will pop-up in-front of you with all the important file which were present by the time of the creation of that specific restore point.

]]>http://www.blogsolute.com/browse-windows-system-restore-points/19874/feed/1Convert From XPS To PDF Online And Offline Software Convertershttp://www.blogsolute.com/from-xps-to-pdf-online/19866/
http://www.blogsolute.com/from-xps-to-pdf-online/19866/#commentsMon, 20 Feb 2012 05:50:24 +0000http://www.blogsolute.com/?p=19866Microsoft Corporation is said to be the creator of a lot of document formats including .docx, .pptx, .xps, etc. All of these document formats are meant to be opened by their respective viewer, but we know better that we can view and edit almost all of the office supported formats in free software like Open [...]

]]>Microsoft Corporation is said to be the creator of a lot of document formats including .docx, .pptx, .xps, etc. All of these document formats are meant to be opened by their respective viewer, but we know better that we can view and edit almost all of the office supported formats in free software like Open Office. The thing is not many people uses all of these document formats. So people tend to move towards file format converters like the ones I’m going to share.

Like I said, not many people view files in XPS(Open XML Paper Specification) viewer nor do they really use this document format, but we do need XPS viewer and editor if we are working on a fixed structured/layout document based on XML(Extensive Markup Language). When we talk about converting file formats just for the aspect of viewing we generally tend to convert file formats to PDF(Portable Document Format).

I’ll give the names of some online and offline tools that converts XPS file format to PDF format for free.

Online Tools

As the name suggests, Convert.Files lets you convert any document file in any format to your desired format. All you have to do is upload your file from the browse option. In the input format choose XPS and in the Output format choose PDF and then click Convert.

XPS To PDF is another online XPS to PDF converter, which lets you convert XPS documents to PDF documents online for free. It even shows you how to convert XPS to PDF using XPS Viewer and Bullzip PDF printer.

Offline Tool

CheckPrixa XPS To PDF converter is one of the widely used converters because of it’s batch conversion support. All you have to do is install this free application from their website and choose your file for conversion. You can even convert multiple files at once. It is a very handy tool.